I remember seeing this segment with Jim Carrey on Oprah when it first aired 20+ years ago (scroll down for video link). At the time it struck a chord somewhere in me, but intellectually I had a hard time chalking it up to much more than coincidence. But everything he describes eventually happened to me as well, and just as with him, ushered me into a full-blown (if much less public) spiritual Awakening.
When you understand the mechanism that underpins manifestation, it's like being given a special filter to daily experience that removes much of the noise and ego nonsense, and reveals a simpler, gloriously Intelligent, ever-present Truth: that we are all One, always in communication with each other on a variety of levels, always co-creating each other's reality for our mutual education and benefit. It is from this perspective that we are able to go forth and consciously manifest the kind of world we want to live in.
Check it out, if you haven't seen it before. Carrey knows exactly what he is talking about: